French. Lizzie Crozier French Scrapbook, p. 37e

UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
(Mortimer Thompson.)
I believe in democracy, in its generic
sense, democracy in politics, in religion,
in economics and in the family.
I believe democracy is no experiment to be tried but an evolution to be fulfilled.
I have no confidence in any institution among human beings that is not cornerstoned in the consent of those human beings.
Universal suffrage is necessary to that consent.
Sooner or later women's suffrage must be established. It is one of the stages in the evolution of democracy
and when one considers the great economic revolution of the last fifty years it seems strange that it is not already established.
Decent men no longer regard women as either serfs or idiots. Then why should they longer
permit their statute books to insult their
mothers, wives and daughters with the
implication? That honorable self-re-
specting women are indignant and sometimes break windows is
not surprising.
Heads have been browen(sic.) with far less provocation.

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UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE
(Mortimer Thompson.)
I believe in democracy, in its generic
sense, democracy in politics, in religion,
in economics and in the family.
I believe democracy is no experiment to be tried but an evolution to be fulfilled.
I have no confidence in any institution among human beings that is not cornerstoned in the consent of those human beings.
Universal suffrage is necessary to that consent.
Sooner or later women's suffrage must be established. It is one of the stages in the evolution of democracy
and when one considers the great economic revolution of the last fifty years it seems strange that it is not already established.
Decent men no longer regard women as either serfs or idiots. Then why should they longer
permit their statute books to insult their
mothers, wives and daughters with the
implication? That honorable self-re-
specting women are indignant and sometimes break windows is
not surprising.
Heads have been browen(sic.) with far less provocation.